Stark House Press’ first foray into the library of Ace PBOs is their latest collection: Three Aces. It includes the following novels: The Gilded Hideaway by Peter Twist, In at the Kill by Emmett McDowell, and Heat Lightning by Wilene Shaw. I am honored to have penned the introduction to this volume with the able assists of James Reasoner, George Kelley, and Gary Lovisi.
It’s available now from Stark House Press.
Staccato Crime 008 Long out of print, Stealing Through Life is the perfect complement to the earlier Staccato reprint, Grimhaven by Robert Joyce Tasker. Tasker and Booth were both inmates in San Quentin and became friends…
The latest Gold Medal reprint from Black Gat Books opens with a bang. In this case, a bazooka wielded by Monk Anzeiger, a dead-stop can opener against an armored truck hauling dough destined for a branch…
Murders in Silk boasts an intricate plot, masterfully meted out by a terrific author. In a short bio at the rear of the volume we learn the author wrote only four novels; two under his real…
Soon to be reprinted as Black Gat Book No. 44 by Stark House Press. Paul Eugene Conant (1906–1968) wrote only three novels. This was the lone entry under his real name, the other two were as…
Object of Lust by Charles Runyon (alias Mark West) Black Gat No. 43 Bombshell, Marian Morgan is bored with her husband, Dewitt Morgan, who works too much and pays her too little attention. She copes with…
Staccato Crime SC-007 Successful businessman Miles Farrington is a moderately likable fugitive on the lam after he murders a young woman he picked up during an insensible drinking binge. A psychologist would suggest he imagined strangling…
Black Gat Books No. 42 Will Peters fought in the Korean War and took home some shrapnel in his head. The docs told him it’s nothing to worry about, they just want him to check in…
Late in 2021, I interviewed Stephen Jones and David A. Sutton about their long running weird fiction digest Fantasy Tales for The Digest Enthusiast No. 15 (January 2022). One of the questions was about whether or…
